The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Method Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in Women Suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Arising from Non-military Events

• Main Authors: Alireza Maredpour, Mahmoud Najafi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2016-07-01
• Series: Muṭāli̒āt-i Ravān/Shināsī-i Bālīnī
• Subjects: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing; posttraumatic stress disorder
• Online Access: http://jcps.atu.ac.ir/article_4557_6f23b67fa5286e203e803af5a92e33bd.pdf

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing technique on treatment of women's post-traumatic stress disorder in Yasooj. The population of this study was all women who have had psychological and psychiatric recording hospitals and therapeutic and specialized enters of Yassoj diagnosed with Posttraumatic stress disorder arising from non-military events. Fourty members of the population were selected randomly and divided into two groups of experimental and control that each of them including 20 people. Then technique of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing was applied to the experimental group in during five sessions ninety minute once week but no experiment was done to the control group. The study instruments included Impact of event revised scale, PTSD symptoms self-report scale, Symptom Checklist-90-R. The study participants were tested in pre-test, post-test, with regard to the variables under study. Obtained Data were analysed using MANCOVA and ANCOVA methods. The findings obtained based on data analysis showed that the method of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing decreased scores of the Impact of event revised scale, PTSD symptoms self-report scale, Global severity index of Symptom Checklist-90-R.The obtained results showed that this treatment method had been effective on alleviating PTSD and its symptoms.